Globe holder



I. G. WEBB GLOBE HOLDER Jan. 2,1934.

Filed Dec. 14, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR ATTORNEY I. G. WEBB GLOBE HOLDER Jan. 2, 1934.

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INVENTOR 5'1 ATTORNEY is the object of my invention.

Patented Jan. 2, 1934 UNTD STATES PATENT? OFFICE Application December 14, 1932 Serial No. 647,168

3 Claims. (01. 240135) My invention relates to improvements in globe holders for holding glass globes on a gasoline pump standard at service stations and the like, and more particularly to a novel construction of the means surrounding the globe to hold it in an upright position on said standard. In glass globes for service stations 2. difficulty has been eX- perienced and disadvantages encountered partly due to the weakness of the neck of the globe, secured in a socket by the usual series of set screws, engaging the flange on the neck of the globe, and partly due to resistance to the wind. Great loss has been incurred in the breaking of the globes in the neck portion by the pressure of the set screws, also by expansion of the glass when heated. Any excess pressure of one of the screws will crack the neck portion of the globe. To overcome these disadvantages in mounting these globes and to eliminate the loss due to breakage Among the other object features are to simplify and to make easy the mounting and removal of the globe of a gasoline pump.

To illustrate my invention are the accompanying drawings, wh ch are the forms preferred at present, by me, to give the best results, although they can be arranged in diiferent forms of application.

With these objects in View my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a front perspective view of my device.

Fig. 2 is a plan View of my device, as applied to a globe neck.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of my device.

Fig. 4 is a side view of my device in partial cross section.

The same reference characters denote like parts in each of the several figures of the drawings.

In carrying out my invention, I provide a ring 'plate A, having on the front side the lug 2 and on the rear side the lug 3 and mounted upon the rear projection of lug 3, I have the pivoted arms 4 and 4'. The arms 4 and 4' are pivoted on the bolt 5, and horizontally upon the ring A, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, each arm 4 and 4' turning horizontally outward. The ring A sets over the cap or head support B of the gas standard. The globe C is mounted or rests with its base upon the ring A. In this form of globe C the base curves inward and outward at the point 6, and has. upon it the projecting flange 7 which rests in contact with the ring A. The arms 4 and 4' at their opposite ends from the pivot 5 project outward horizontally in the forms 8 and 8 shown in Fig. 3, and each has a recess projecting therein at 9 and 9.

In the recess 9 is pivotally mounted the threaded screw head 10 which turns on the pivot 11, and on the end of which is mounted the nut 12. On the interior of the arms 4 and 4 I have mounted the cushions 13 and 13, which in the operation of the arms press against the curved base 6 of the globe C.

As a further part of my device, in the front projection lug 2 I have mounted the bolt 14, and on which is the cross bar 15, held by the nut 16 7o mounted on bolt 14, as shown in Fig. 3, and which cross bar 15 projects outward over the horizontal arm projection 8 and 8 so that the arms 8 and 8 are pressed down by the cross bar 15 and held in sliding contact therewith. In the operation of the device in order to mount the globe C on the standard head B, I loosen nut 12 mounted on pivot bolt 10 until the bolt 10 can be turned outward on pivot 11 and out of I contact with recess 9, and so permit the arms 8 so and 8' to be separated from under the cross bar 15 and extended outward and thus permit the globe C to be properly mounted upon the head plate B. The cushion 13 on the interior side of the arms 4, 4 forms a yielding contact with the 8s curved surface of the globe C on its neck 6. The pressure of the arms 4, 4' against the neck of globe C is in yielding contact and thus may be adjusted when together by the nut 12 operating on the bolt 10, and by this contact the pressure of the arms 4 and 4 is prevented from breaking the globe C in its neck 6. In this manner, having mounted the globe C in position on the ring A, the arms 4, 4' are drawn together by turning up the nut 12, the pivoted bolt 10 turning in the 953 recess 9 and slidably entering the recess 9. The a globe C is held in an adjustable but firm position upon the cap B. When for any purpose it is desired to release the globe, by loosening the nut 12 on the bolt 10, the closing contact bolt 10d 10 in the recess 9 is removed, and the arms 4 and 4' with their projections 8 and 8' are turned outward from beneath the cross bar 15 and loosened and disengaged from the base of globe C and the globe can be taken off.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and for which I desire Letters Patent is as follows:

1. In a globe holder for light globes, a circular Y a e m unted. in any convenient manner on the top of a light standard, said base having on the rear side a projecting lug and on the front side a projecting lug, two circular arm segments, the rear ends of which are pivotally mounted on a bolt mounted in the rear lug projection, necks on the front ends of said segments terminating in heads having jaws, a bolt pivotally mounted in one jaw and passing through the opposite, jaw member, a nut on the bolt, and across bar hori; zontally mounted on a bolt projecting between the front ends of said segments from said front lug projection. e

2. In a globe holder for light globes having a base mounted on a light standard on the head thereof, the combination of an encircling ring cap having horizontal lugs projecting from both rear and front sides, a vertical pivot standard on the rear lug, segmental projecting ariris mounted on the pivot standard, a cushion surface positioned on the interior of each segment he i .9 aid arm P oje in 9 35??? at rightanglesto the body portion and forming i time. .12 se t portion, h, ne k terminating ahead member, the headhaving a projectinjgupper and lower jaw, a threaded bolt lb i en. thei of we ead me e and passing between the jaws of the opposite head member, a nut mounted on the outer end of said threaded bolt, a vertical pivot standard positioned on the ring cap between the arm members, and a clamping cross bar mounted on the standard across the necks of the segments.

3. In a globe holder for light globes, a hollow standard, an encircling ring cap mounted on the head thereo f, horizontal projecting lugs extending f r om the frontand rear sides of the cap, two oppositely positioned segmental arms with their rear ends pivoted on the standard, the front end of each segmental arm having an extending neck projecting at right angles to the body and terminating in a head member, parallel jaws projecting from each head, a threaded bolt member with its base pivoted between the jaws of one head and its outer end passing between the open jaws of the opposite head and having a nut member, a standard mounted on the front of the ring cap between the necks of the pivoted arm segments, a crossbar mounted on the standard extending over and across the arm segments, and a cushion portion mounted on the inner face of the arm segments adapted to press against the globe base when the pivoted arms are drawn together.

IRAG. WEBB. 

